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Celebrate Independent Venue Week with an electrifying night of new music as we showcase some of the most exciting rising bands on the scene.

Rose Villas

Hebden four-piece Rose Villas are the latest in a line of young indie rock bands to emerge, restless and hungry, from the reverberating wilderness of the Calder Valley. The band is made up of Alfie Hackett, vocals and rhythm guitar, Harry Cave, lead guitar, Charlie Pickens, bass, and Albie Shaw-White, drums. All aged 18, they’ve arrived at a sound that meshes the brooding intensity of alt-rock titans Radiohead with the subtleties and textures of shoegaze and psych. It’s a moody, alluring concoction, but it’s a sound that has taken them a little while to settle on. 

Herbie May

The Lounge Society guitarist Herbie May released his debut solo single Bleeding/Shoelaces with Red Liquorice on 7 November 2025. Herbie’s solo sound is stripped down and emotionally intelligent – think Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett, but also older artists: ‘It’s Lou Reed meets Orange Juice!’ remarked someone, and they’re maybe not wrong. You can also hear influences as varied as The The and PJ Harvey in the mix although this music is also entirely its own. The record was produced by fellow Lounge Society member Archie Dewis and Gordon Raphael (of notoriety for his work with the Strokes, among others). Herbie, like so many of his generation, feels extremely bewildered on a daily basis. In an effort to find something stable, something reliable and honest, he has turned to matching playful lyricism with captivating melodies.

Single File Traffic

Single File Traffic formed in Hebden Bridge whilst watching a Pigs
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played at that concert would have no audible impact on the members
of Single File Traffic. Frontman Frankie Montgomery writes all the lyrics and most of the music. Ewan Smith arranges the songs and writes some of the music. The band is vehemently left-wing and proudly working-class. The kind
of background that makes ya ask:

“Do I even have the money to be in a band?”

They get their name from the common road sign and the band Traffic.
They’ve decided to be the best band of Gen Z and the worst of Gen
Alpha.
“The group sounds as if Radiohead had been forced to deliver used

washing machines in a 2009 Berlingo”

• Frankie Montgomery

They take great offence to the idea of being overly serious, instead
choosing to adopt what they call “ironic sincerity”. Lyrically
inspired by the likes of Robert Burns, Forough Farrokhzad, James
Joyce and Laura Nyro, and musically indebted to Wilco and Radiohead,
Single File Traffic is a band that aim to sound pompous and
depressing whilst sarcastically wittering on about J.W. Waterhouse
and clog factories.

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/singlefiletraffic.hq/

Philip Quinn

The ex-little volcanoes singer is back with his second solo album called ‘Snazzy’ and judging by the first bold lead track ‘psych’ it promises, as usual to be an album packed with songs that weld themselves instantly to the brain.

He has also, at long last assembled a dynamic and exciting backing band for live shows that breathe an extra energy to his catchy guitar pop rock tunes.

His next track taken from the album is going to be ‘Concentration’ a pulsating euro-pop electronic anthem dedicated to the autistic and dyslexic individuals he intensely Identifies with and is so fond of writing songs for.

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